@article{pittir20452, volume = {5}, number = {10}, month = {May}, author = {W Du and DP Curran}, title = {Synthesis of carbocyclic and heterocyclic fused quinolines by cascade radical annulations of unsaturated N-aryl thiocarbamates, thioamides, and thioureas}, journal = {Organic Letters}, pages = {1765 -- 1768}, year = {2003}, url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/20452/}, abstract = {(Matrix presented) Tandem radical cyclizations of suitably substituted N-aryl thiocarbamates, thioamides, and thioureas are induced by exposure to tris(trimethylsilyl)-silane (TTMSH) and UV light and provide furoquinolines, isofuroquinolines, cyclopentaquinolines, indoloquinolines, and related ring systems. The intermediacy of an {\ensuremath{\alpha}}-thioalkylamino radical, which is the synthetic equivalent of an imidoyl radical, is invoked.} }